Chapter 1,555 Trip to China(1/2)
The harassment from the outside world was nothing more than that. Because public opinion once again implicated Matsumoto Keiko’s life-long events, this incident also caused an uproar in her family.
Soon, Matsumoto Keiko's mother called her and asked her to come home as soon as possible, saying that her father wanted to see her.
It should be said that Keiko Matsumoto is a person with a big heart.
Since the day she debuted as an artist, she has been subject to scrutiny and questioning from public opinion in all aspects.
Even after she became famous, it was not all smooth sailing when she was enjoying the glory.
For example, she was once regarded as an unlucky person when she encountered supernatural incidents while filming an advertisement a few years ago.
As a result, many advertisers gave up on her collectively, and her economy and reputation suffered a double blow.
Also some time ago, the public opinion storm created by Kinji Fukasaku and Michiko Harada caused her to be scolded so much that she even thought that her career was about to end.
She took all these indifferently and endured them.
But receiving a call from her mother was a little different for Matsumoto Keiko.
Because her family's incomprehension is no better than outsiders' incomprehension, she can turn a deaf ear to it.
If her family opposes her, that would be heartbreaking and the most terrifying thing.
She could clearly feel from her mother's slightly worried but calm tone that her parents wanted to ask her about something, and that it contained the risk of family conflict.
For this reason, her throat felt a little dry.
To be honest, she really didn't want to go. She wasn't fully prepared yet, but the problem was that these were her parents.
And she also knew that sooner or later this day would come and she would not be able to hide.
So she had no other choice. No matter how reluctant she was, she could only cheer up, seize the time to arrange her work, tidied herself up, dressed neatly, and rushed to the appointment early.
She didn't tell Ning Weimin about this, probably knowing that the meeting and conversation might not go smoothly.
Sure enough, when she returned home, she faced her father who looked like he was facing a formidable enemy and was ready to fight.
Matsumoto Keiko's father, Han Yingming, is a Korean in Japan and has a tough personality.
The male chauvinist style is very serious, and if you open your mouth, you will be questioned like a policeman.
He even unknowingly sided with the media, believing those outside rumors to be true, and was completely dissatisfied with blaming and reprimanding Matsumoto Keiko.
Matsumoto Keiko's mother, Tsuneko, is Japanese and has a very soft character. She is trying her best to calm down the father and daughter, hoping that they will not be so tense.
Unfortunately, under the long-term pressure of her furious husband, the role she can play in fear of her husband is limited.
In fact, because he interrupted her several times to smooth things over, she was repeatedly scolded by her husband and dismissed as being in the way.
As a result, things suddenly backfired and had the opposite effect.
You know, what Matsumoto Keiko couldn't stand the most was seeing her mother acting cowardly and wronged in front of her parents.
So Matsumoto Keiko, who originally wanted to communicate as well as possible and try to solve the problem in a roundabout way, gave up her original intention without saying a few words because she was dissatisfied with her father's attitude towards her mother.
He returned to the old way of confronting his father and started to quarrel with him.
To put it bluntly, Matsumoto Keiko's emotions were out of control because she didn't want her parents to interfere with her feelings and marriage.
It was more out of his hatred of male chauvinism and his long-term dissatisfaction with his father that he became rebellious and intended to resist.
So, driven by anger and excitement, she no longer cared about her father's feelings, and simply revealed Ning Weimin's identity and told her parents that she had actually fallen in love with a Chinese.
Moreover, Ning Weimin's gentleness and kindness were compared with his father's arrogance and arrogance.
He blamed his father for treating his mother too harshly, causing her to waste half her life without any happiness at all.
So one can imagine what kind of explosive situation will follow?
As a traditional and old-school person, Han Yingming originally had a patriarchal style.
What's more, he has lived in Japan for a long time and has been dealing with those Japanese people who are famous for their granite heads. Naturally, he has agreed with that sentence - those who are close to vermillion are red and those who are close to ink are black, and his head has become a black one. Got stuck.
In terms of his attitude towards his family, one of Han Yingming's most distinctive personal characteristics is that he is not allowed to follow the rules. Once he does not follow the rules, he must use his father's authority to suppress and punish him.
Not to mention that Matsumoto Keiko actually dared to challenge his father's authority face to face and criticized him, which caused him a huge loss of face.
This almost touched his skin.
So in a rage, Han Yingming completely turned into a lion with red eyes and wanted to devour anyone.
Not only did she yell at her on the spot, she even beat her disobedient daughter.
This was the first time Keiko Matsumoto had been beaten and scolded by her father as an adult, and she was filled with disappointment and dismay towards her father.
Feeling aggrieved, she couldn't help but vowed that "if her father does not agree to her marriage, she will never return to this family again."
But how could the furious Han Yingming give in at this time?
After hearing this, it was even more difficult to contain my negative emotions, so I yelled at my daughter angrily, "Since you don't want this home anymore, you should never enter this home in the future. I don't have a daughter like you. How dare you come back?" , just don’t blame me for beating you to death..."
There is no doubt that the temperaments of the father and daughter are so similar that Matsumoto Keiko almost completely inherited the toughness of Han Yingming.
But this kind of character is also the fundamental reason why they are so confrontational and difficult to resolve the conflict.
Saying this is tantamount to putting the relationship between each other to death.
If no one is willing to soften their position and give in, it will be obvious that it will be difficult for the father and daughter to meet each other in the future, and everyone will have to go to the dark side.
What's worse is that Qingzi's mother can't do anything at this time.
Because her character is too weak and she is too timid in front of her husband.
I was simply frightened by this unprecedentedly serious family conflict, because my fear turned into a motionless statue.
She didn't even have time to react or accept the reality of what was happening before her eyes. The father and daughter had completely turned against each other, and their relationship was irretrievably broken.
In fact, before she could dissuade her, her daughter covered her face and ran out of the house crying.
When she finally came to her senses, she found that all that was left in her home was a mess, only indifference and alienation, only loneliness and depression.
There was also the husband who had been pacing around the room like a trapped animal, panting heavily and unable to stop for a moment.
In the days that followed, Keiko Matsumoto completely cut off any contact with her parents.
It's not that the two parties don't want to contact each other, at least the mother and daughter miss each other and are eager to talk about their troubles.
But the problem is that there is Han Yingming between them.
As the mother of Keiko Matsumoto, Ryoko has long been accustomed to the subordinate status of this family.
Facing her husband, who is the head of the family, she really does not have enough courage and ability to resist.
As a daughter, Matsumoto Keiko knows better that if she and her mother complain in private, it will only make her mother's situation difficult, and will instead cause her mother to be embarrassed by her father.
As a result, both parties had to temporarily maintain this "parent-child separation" situation.
Objectively speaking, it is difficult to see any possibility of improvement in the short term, and we have entered a paranoid period of mutual torture.
This cannot but be said to be the biggest flaw and regret in Matsumoto Keiko's life.
But at this moment, the crew of "Li Xianglan" has completed all the preliminary preparations including actor selection, and almost all the preliminary funds and equipment personnel are in place.
So I am about to go to China and prepare to officially start the production.
So, under such circumstances, Matsumoto Keiko, with hard-to-heal emotional pain, bid farewell to Ning Weimin with a strong smile, and began the arduous journey to China.
On July 4, 1986, Pavarotti, the world-renowned Italian tenor and "World Singer", held a solo concert in the brightly lit Great Hall of the People in the capital of China.
Keiko Matsumoto and all the film crew members boarded a chartered plane and flew to the capital.
As for why this trip to China is defined by hardship?
Mainly due to the limited reception conditions in China.
You know, even in the capital of the Republic, there are currently too few accommodation places with ideal conditions in the capital.
The conditions of the Great Wall Hotel and Jianguo Hotel are good, but it is really difficult to accommodate hundreds of Japanese at the same time, and there is simply no way to get so many rooms.
What's more, during this period, there were other well-known artists and cultural groups from foreign countries stationed in the capital for a long time.
For example, Pavarotti's team visited China for the first time in June and held a concert in China.
There is also the film crew of Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci who is filming "The Last Emperor" in the Forbidden City.
And the evil that Ning Weimin himself had done - only after listening to his idea did Pierre Cardon China send out an invitation to the French team of Alain Delon and Deneuve, who had already agreed to visit China and were about to leave next month.
So think about it, how lively will these people be plus the crew of "Li Xianglan"?
This is a reception task for at least several thousand people!
Where can the Beijing government's communications department currently cope?
So there was no choice. When the "Li Xianglan" film crew arrived at their destination, they had no choice but to stay at the Qianmen Hotel in Hufangqiao.
Yes, this hotel is indeed very old and its facilities are not ideal.
The service is also far behind the real star-rated hotels such as the Great Wall Hotel and Jianguo Hotel. It is not even considered a three-star hotel.
Not to mention Matsumoto Keiko herself, even ordinary Japanese staff from other film crews would find the conditions difficult and embarrassing if they lived here.
But having said that, this is really the best hotel that the Beijing government can currently provide.
In fact, even the Berlin Symphony Orchestra led by Karajan stayed here when they came to the capital.
To be continued...